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Musing Mathematically: A Tour
Musing Mathematically is a blog written by Nat Banting, a mathematics teacher, and mathematics education lecturer at the Department of Curriculum Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. His blog, which began back in 2011, is centered around the ideas … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, K-12 Mathematics, Math Education, Mathematics and the Arts
Tagged Blog, Blog on Math Blogs, Fraction Talks, mathematics education, Musing Mathematically, Nat Banting, probability, Thinking Classrooms
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Hot Hands and Tuesday’s Children
People, especially sports fans, seem to believe that players can get “hot,” that they will hit more baskets (or succeed in whatever metric is of interest in their sport) more after a series of hits than after a series of … Continue reading
Posted in Math Communication, Statistics
Tagged Andrew Gelman, fallacy of the hot hand fallacy, hot hand, hot hand fallacy, Jordan Ellenberg, probability, sons born on Tuesday, Tanya Khovanova
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Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Last semester, my university put on a production of Tom Stoppard’s play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead that got me thinking about the likelihood of flipping a lot of heads in a row. I wrote about it on my other … Continue reading